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Anyone mess around with this band? She's replaced Karen O as my favorite Indie chick around. Just started listening Lungs the album from last year...good stuff.

On your recommendation I looked into this. The comparisons to Kate Bush immediately got my interest. Listening to Lungs now. To me, Kate was somewhat of an influence here, but not to excess. Very good stuff, I can see this record growing on me. Thanks.

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^^ I listen to the Local Natives now. I'm starting to fall in like with music like this. How should I classify it?

Indie Rock. (As in short for independent label)

Their debut album just came out a few months ago. One of the best albums I've heard front to back in a long time. Check it out it's called Gorilla Manor.

Here's my favorite.

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BTW a great site to pick up indie album reviews is www.pitchfork.com

Some bands you should investigate:

Pinback

Spoon

Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown/Handsome Furs (2 lead singers of WF, one went to SR other went to HF)

Black Keys

Fleet Foxes

Vampire Weekend

Plus a million more. Most of the stuff I posted is more typical 4 member band stuff but there is a huge collection of groups that are more electronic and really have some good stuff. Cut Copy is probably my favorite of that genre. Anyway I'm assuming you were like me 2 years ago when I said to myself "I love music but how come I hate all the crap on the radio?" If want more let me know.

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^^ I already listen to alot of those bands lol. Spoon, Black Keys, Vampire Weekend are some good bands...Postal Service is fun to mess with too. Ever listen to the Cold War Kids? Awesome band.

I've dipped into the genre but haven't really taken an all out swim yet. D'you listen to Julian Casablanca's solo album? Good stuff.

More from Florence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7baoTqocJs&feature=related

Here she covers the Cold War Kids' Hospital Beds:

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Your youtube vids aren't showing up for some reason. Are you seeing them?

I just d/l'd MGMT's new album "Congratulations". So far pretty interesting if you're into more esoteric type stuff (70's art rock -ish?).

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I think I heard some Cold War Kids awhile ago and thought positively of them but never followed through with them. I'll go check them out again. I like the Florence stuff.

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Wow. I like this song a lot. Never heard of the Band. Thank you for the good looks!

No problem. There hasn't been one person I introduced to this song that didn't instantly like it. I'm actually seeing them live at the Bowery (I think) on May 6th. I can't wait for the show.

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I'm not seeing my Youtube vidoes, I'll try to fix it.

MGMT is really good stuff. Some video game a couple years had Electric Feel and since then I've been hooked.

Check out Robbers and Cowards from the Cold War Kids. Great debut album.

D/led R&C and will be putting it in rotation. I think you might be putting the whole link in between the youtube tags as opposed to just putting the youtube ID which is the stuff after the = sign.

So for instance if the URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-gl0E9bRa4

You only have to put P-gl0E9bRa4 in the youtube tags.

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Don't know if you guys are interested but here are a few of my favorite songs of the moment. All 4 of these albums have good stuff, with the Late of the Pier album being my favorite.

Passion Pit - Moth's Wings (Album - Manners)

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Late of the Pier - Heartbeat (Album - Fantasy Black Channel)

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Hockey - Learn to Lose (Album - Mind Chaos)

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Beach House - Walk in the Park (Album - Teen Dream)

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Can't recommend this LP highly enough. Probably in the top 5 for the year so far. Definitely best appreciated with a great pair of headphones, the vocals and texturing are just fantastic.

Agreed, although I think the vocals are difficult for some to get past. It's a great album to have in the background to lounge out too.

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Don't know if you guys are interested but here are a few of my favorite songs of the moment. All 4 of these albums have good stuff, with the Late of the Pier album being my favorite.

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - Best album Ive heard this year so far

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I hate going all creepy fanboy on the internet, but sh*t happens amirite?

She left The Colbert speechless last night...just an extremely impressive performance artist:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/390202/june-21-2011/florence-welch

How often does that happen? A Colbert left feeling awkward moment...the man lives in awkward...

Oh, and she's at Central Park this Friday.

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She left The Colbert speechless last night...just an extremely impressive performance artist:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/390202/june-21-2011/florence-welch

How often does that happen? A Colbert left feeling awkward moment...the man lives in awkward...

Apparently Stephen has a thing for the redheads? Christina Hendricks does it to people too.

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Red headed females yes. Us red headed males get no love. Who do we have to represent the red headed male community? Carrot top? Conan is the only cool red headed male out there.

My son's a redhead, and he's super-cool. All the chicks love running their fingers thru his hair, too. He's definitely playing it to his advantage.

Isn't Max a redhead? Or is just that that wouldn't help your case.

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Bringing this thread back simply because I love this cover and bored enough to post it:

This is one of my favorite songs period, and I think the cover is extremely well done. Love the macabre video...love the take on the song...love the way she kills the "my love is bigger than a Cadillac" line...

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